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Show IT RETURNS TO ITS SLUMS The Dcseret News Inst night repentcft its old slander that The Tribune "years ago" urged people to go to excess in saloons, gambling dens, and with bad women, as a sign of their independence, nu exercise of their liberty. Of course, The Tribune never advocated any such stuff. If did, at one time, however, have an editorial in which some one was quoted .-is saying that, he preferred to see ment do those things rather than to see them forever under the groveling grovel-ing and slavish dictation of nu arbitrary arbi-trary and conscienceless priesthood. Passing (o another phase of the question, ques-tion, the News, in undertaking lo'seoff at thcsplondid work of the American parry, evidently fearing that this work is lo be made the chief campaign cry in tho municipal election this year, undertakes un-dertakes its usual evasive misrepre-presentation misrepre-presentation in connection with some remarks made by Mr. Joseph Lippmaii at the American Club meeting on Tuesday Tues-day night, and our comments upon that meeting and remarks made therein. After some twaddling attempts at cva-siou cva-siou of the point that it was the American Ameri-can triumph of WOo that gave the vital vi-tal spark fo tho tremendous energy in building that is distinctive in this city, the News undertakes to claim that other than the American party men did this building. .But the American party men have done their share of it. and are going "to do more. Jt was their wresting of the city from tho graspiui; of a paralyzing para-lyzing priesthood Hint gave the city its opportunity to move so grandly lo tho front in the extensive building that it has done, and in (he mighty improvements im-provements that have been made; -and when (ho News asks where are those ! improvements, it simply proclaims it self blinded by bitter and stupid prejudice; preju-dice; Tor ' those improvements are lo be seen on every hand. And when the News undertakes lo say that the railroads rail-roads did not recognize the vital impulse im-pulse given to (lie city by the American Ameri-can triumph, it assails them for a stupidity that they have never manifested. mani-fested. Then it speaks further of the improvements im-provements of the street railway sys tem, as something not due to the American Amer-ican party. We should like to have the church organ explain, then, how it was that until the American parly came into power the old street railway company was neither able to do any-thinghvith any-thinghvith its rundown, and scrap heap properly, nor to get a purchaser for it. And we are obliged to the News for singling out. this particular item, for if names one of the conspicuous benefits thai Hie American party has conferred upon this city and on the church itself.. First upon (he city by giving it, a modern, up-to-date street railway system, and upon the church in enabling its president to dispose of the old company's wreckage which it had never been able to do in all the years of church parly control. However, lo get hwM fo the moral proposition: The church organ enumerates enum-erates sarcastically, as one of the benefits bene-fits conferred by the American party, the stockade on the west side, "established "estab-lished in defiance of the law and public pub-lic sentiment.'' And it undertakes again, in spite of its former disavowal of any party being responsible for the establishment of such conditions in this or in any other city, falsifying its own position and going back on it-tolf. it-tolf. fo charge the existence of that stockade upon lhe American parly. And, in another editorial, il undertakes lo argue that the State had no respon sibility for it. although il is unqnes (ionably a State incorporation, under the name of the Citizens' Investment i Company, which the News itself admits ad-mits to be the fact. But the .News Kays that it "has no Slate charter that authorizes it to run a stockade."' Whatever What-ever it, is running, however, is run by virtue of its Stale incorporation. And if the Stale lid not. authorize it lo run a stockade, it is the State's business busi-ness to see that the company does not run one. And when the News further "expresses its belief that the company did not undertake its infamous enter priso until it has had assurance from the so-called American party leaders that; it would be all right. ,J it simply advertises ifself as a vicious - defamer and a going back on 'its own admission that the. American parly was not responsible in this regard. The truth is that fhe Deseret News is so blinded by prejudice, and besotted besot-ted by its inclination to falsehood, that it, is impossible for il to stale a matter mat-ter consistently, reasonably, or truthfully, truth-fully, when its antagonism is aroused. It alleges a thing ono day. denies it again, and. so, like a dog, is constantly returning to its vomit, and sickening a disgusted public with its vile, revolting baseness. |